And I get a kick out of those who draw totally unjustified conclusions based on their own prejudices rather than from anything I said. Copy and paste into my white board the sentences I wrote which made you draw your conclusions. We can then closely analyze what I wrote and what you concluded and see which one of us has the greater "IMAGINATION".

A BIG CONGRATS on reaching that 1.5M mark and your nice new red pickup truck! Wow! Truly awesome! Others ahead of you have retired, so there is lots of room at the 2M milestone! More than 90% of all the GBs that signed up over the past 13+ years will never make it to 1M points! You're one of only 5,422 GBs, of more than 8,000,000 GBs, that have accumulated at least 1,500,000 points! Can you believe that GBs are still active going on 13+ years and heading for the 5M milestone, and many GBs continue on before they retire between 3M and 4M! Keep going, don't stop now, like so many that retired once they reached their first red car or stopped at 2M! Keep leading the way for others to follow in GasBuddyland! Thank you for your 10+ years of dedication here on GasBuddy! Have a nice week! Ron

Re: "The value of going to alternatives, especially hybrids and electric vehicles to quit paying people who hate us money more than makes up for any incentives and costs to move to them. To pretend we can keep doing what we're doing and somehow it'll get better or a different result is the definition of insanity."
True enough. However, EVs and Hybrids use rare earth materials scarcer than oil and mainly found in China. EVs are definitely not ready for prime time. Oil and coal are known quantities and the US is rich enough in both of these materials for quite some time. True enough, we import too much foreign oil. But the alternatives aren't any prettier at this point in time.

re: "So your answer is to ignore what's happening now with Big oil manipulating the prices and "ass-u-me the price of alternatives and electric will go up as high as oil. Since you got the old ESP fired up, tell us what the answer to the oil price problem is. Don't give me the drill here, drill now BS, we are exporting gasoline right now to keep prices up."
No. You are assuming what I believe. However, if you do start using electricity or natural gas it will indeed drive prices up as there will be more demand for the product. And that cost will spread into other areas. We need to use all sorts of fuel sources and oil will be a big player as will coal for a number of years (probably decades).